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The book concludes with a series of creative prompts to engage readers with the text so that the stories continue to unfold.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49733082710289,"sku":"NGR9780872332966","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51333488083217,"sku":"CIN0872332969G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0872332969.jpg?v=1751329850"},{"product_id":"opening-the-window-book-leaf-seligman-9780872331488","title":"Opening the Window","description":"Why do we do what we do? What happens as a result? How do we make sense of, and find meaning in, our lives and in the world that contains us? How do we render wholeness out of brokenness, creating mosaics of beauty and functionality from the rent pieces of our lives? This collection of Sabbath meditations invites readers to inhabit the questions with intention and joy. With a pastor's sensibility, a writer's lyricism, and a generous heart, Leaf Seligman invokes poetry, thinking from diverse spiritual traditions, and stories from her own walk through life to grapple with enduring religious themes and contemporary challenges. It is the preacher's responsibility to be of use, to choose words with great care, and open the window so spirit can move in and out, she writes in her afterword. Indeed, these meditations the words themselves and their call to a more fully understood, more deeply felt life resonate long after the bookmark is tucked into place and the covers closed. Read them slowly and deliberately. Let them be your company as you journey through the Sabbath and into the week.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49809430642961,"sku":"CIN0872331482G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50371509289233,"sku":"CIN0872331482A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0872331482.jpg?v=1751329848"},{"product_id":"pocket-book-of-prompts-book-leaf-seligman-9780872332003","title":"Pocket Book of Prompts","description":"Writer and teacher Leaf Seligman encourages students to use writing as a way to \"deepen connection, make meaning or clarify it.\" In this pocket-sized book she asks more than seventy questions intended as invitations to plumb, to look, to listen, and to engage with life.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50364916859153,"sku":"CIN0872332004G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0872332004.jpg?v=1751363745"},{"product_id":"being-restorative-book-leaf-seligman-9780872333840","title":"Being Restorative","description":"While restorative justice refers to a set of principled responses to harm centered on healing, often in a legal context, and restorative practice extends those responses to other contexts such as schools and the workplace, restorative being embeds connection, compassion, belonging , and accountability into everyday life. \"This book reflects not just on how restorative practices can re-shape our world but also on how each of us can be more restorative in our world.  Weaving the doing with the being, the lessons learned with the frameworks, the poetry with the memoir, is both helpful and hopeful. On top of that, Leaf’s work on co-creating a restorative pedagogy is enlivening and expanding young people’s sense of safety, imagination, and community in these uncertain times. By connecting the practices of restoration with the challenging contexts of our world, Leaf is showing how possible it is to shift from an all-or-nothing, fear-based, punitive approach, to one that encompasses the both\/and, the wholeness of life, and love for all.\" —Shilpa Jain","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50422462644497,"sku":"NGR9780872333840","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009038975249,"sku":"NIN9780872333840","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0872333841.jpg?v=1751265276"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-leaf-seligman.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}